Daylight Saving Time Changes for 2007 - Updated

Novell Cool Solutions: Feature

Starting in 2007, Daylight Saving Time will be extended by 4 weeks in most United States and Canadian time zones. Daylight Saving Time will begin the second Sunday in March (March 11th), 3 weeks earlier than in past years. Daylight Saving Time will end the first Sunday in November (November 4th), 1 week later than in past years. This change complies with a provision of the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 and affects all U.S. time zones that observe Daylight Saving Time (DST). In addition to the United States, many countries have adopted or are considering adopting similar DST changes, I.e. Canada.

The DSTSHIFT utility makes all necessary changes on standard NetWare servers, takes effect immediately and does not require a server re-boot. (Check your server's autoexec.ncf for references to files called DSSTART.NCF and DSEND.NCF. If none are present, the DSTSHIFT utility should work correctly on that server.) NBO and iChain servers store and use DST settings in different locations, and will require additional steps or an alternate method to adjust the start and end dates to the new values. The DSTSHIFT utility alone will not make all the necessary changes for NBO or iChain NetWare servers.

Tips for DST

Lupe Silva

We have to update 150+ netware servers for the daylight savings change.
Unfortunately, we do not have any tools like ZEN for Servers or other server
management tools to do mass changes. As usual for me, I hate repetitive
tasks so I wrote a perl script to push these changes out to the servers.